Linns

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Linns, from 4 m² to 100,038 m² (10 ha, 24.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Linns in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 10 Aug 2026N/a

  Retention Permission is sought for an existing outbuilding for ancillary use in a Rewilding and Natural Regeneration Development Project and all associated site development works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2660550

• 16 Feb 2026Conditional

  Permission for a new two storey extension with a connecting hall to the side and rear of my dwelling house, and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information Received on 11/08/2026*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660075

• 16 May 2024Conditional

  Permission to demolish front, side and rear extension to existing dwelling including outbuildings, construct new side/rear extension, alterations to existing dwelling, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, decommission existing septic tank, detached domestic garage, new site boundaries and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 25/09/2024 which includes revised house plans and site boundaries, alterations to existing entrance gate.*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460279

• 28 Apr 2022Conditional

  permission for (a) a single and two storey extension to the existing dwelling, (b) decommissioning of existing septic tank and (c) installation of a new septic tank and waste water treatment system and all associated site works **Significant further information received on 15.12.22**

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22341

• 9 Apr 2021N/a

  Permission sought to demolish existing dwelling house and hay barn, erect new replacement house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, revised site boundaries and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement has been submitted with this application

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21382

• 31 Mar 2021Refused

  Permission for the construction of a single storey detached bungalow dwelling, a detached garage, the installation of a proprietary effluent waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement has been submitted with this application

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21345

• 25 Feb 2021Conditional

  Retention permission for a single storey extension and canopy to rear of the house, retention of changes to conditions 1 and 2 of planning permission granted under ref. no. 17557. Changes to elevations, finishes, materials and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21182

• 28 Feb 2020Refused

  Permission for a two storey dwelling house with associated two storey domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, alterations to the existing site levels, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20137

• 15 Jul 2019N/a

  Permission for the construction of a first floor (sun room/study) extension to an existing garage/store and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19563

• 2 Jul 2018Conditional

  Permission for development to consist of permission to erect a storey and a half style dwelling, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance to site, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works and services.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18506

• 4 Sept 2017Conditional

  Permission for a single storey rear extension and front elevation changes to existing dwelling. **SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED 26/03/2018 to allow for increase in site size and regularisation of planning application reference 05288 for 4 no. rooflights on the rear roof slope of existing dwelling .**

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17651

• 20 Jul 2017Conditional

  Permission for development that will consist of a new single-storey extension to the rear of the house, conversion and extension of existing attic room to habitable space to include a new bedroom at first floor level. Demolish existing sunroom and shed and all associated site works. **SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED 01/02/2018**

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17557

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Dundalk Bay SAC 000455
• Special Protection Area: Dundalk Bay SPA 004026
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dundalk Bay 000455

Recorded monuments

• LH015-014 Ecclesiastical site
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Reputed site of seventh-century foundation by St Colman, situated on top of ridge close to sea. Paving unearthed during ploughing. No visible surface trace. (CLAJ 1943, 206).

• LH015-015001 Cliff-edge fort
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated on a height to the SW of the River Glyde. Oval area (max. dims. 73m E-W, 34m N-S) bounded by cliff edge to N and slight bank (H 1.4m) with external fosse (Wth 2.8m, D 0.4m) on other sides. The external fosse has been incorporated into modern field-drainage systems at WSW, and on the N-NE the cliff edge has been scarped during OPW river drainage. At E of interior is a circular hut site (LH015-015002-) (int. diam. 4.2m) delimited by a slight bank (Wth 1m, H 0.2m). Adjacent to this hut site, on the edge of the interior of the site, are two banks suggesting the former existence of a larger, rectangular hut (LH015-015003-). Historical evidence (CLAJ 1909, 140-1) suggesting a Danish presence at Annagassan from as early as 831 until at least 926 has led to the suggestion that this is a viking longphort. However, the only find associated with the site is a coin hoard of fourteenth-century date from the base of the cliff to the NE of the site (CLAJ 1929, 42-5). This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1971) and is a National Monument, in state guardianship: No. 579.

• LH015-015002 Hut site
  Description

  At E of interior of 'Lisnaran fort' (LH015-015001-) is a circular hut site (LH015-015002-) (int. diam. 4.2m) delimited by a slight bank (Wth 1m, H 0.2m). Adjacent to this hut site, on the edge of the interior of the site, are two banks suggesting the former existence of a larger, rectangular hut (LH015-015003-). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 31 May 2012 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1971).

• LH015-015003 Hut site
  Description

  At E of interior of 'Lisnaran fort' (LH015-015001-) is a circular hut site (LH015-015002-) (int. diam. 4.2m) delimited by a slight bank (Wth 1m, H 0.2m). Adjacent to this hut site, on the edge of the interior of the site, are two banks suggesting the former existence of a larger, rectangular hut (LH015-015003-). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 31 May 2012 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1971).

• LH015-038 Fortification
  Description

  The first historical reference to the Longphort of Linn Duachaill is in 841 (AU) when foreigners from this place raided deep into Tethba (Longford), and raids continued to originate from here into the 850s. In 851 it withstood an attack by other Vikings, and raiders from Linn Duachaill attacked Armagh the following year. After this it is not mentioned again until a final reference in 926 when a fleet from Strangford Lough may have over-wintered here. The location was identified as Linn townland at Annagassan (Todd 1867, P LXII-III) on the NW-SE peninsula between the river Glyde and the sea. Linn means a pool and is thought to refer to the river pool where a meandering NW-SE section of the river Glyde meets a S-N run of the river Dee before the combined rivers turn NE and enter the sea together. The earliest Viking settlement may have been on the SE shore of the peninsula, although McKeown (2005) thought that the Viking camp would have utilised the height of Lisnaran Fort (LH015015001-) as a citadel and what had been an island to the NW that was isolated by an old meander of the river as the longphort where a defensive earthwork might not be necessary. The peninsula, which is also likely to contain the early monastery (LH015-014----) of St Colmán mac Luachan (obit 699), is shaped like a backwards letter ‘B’, and a geophysical survey (07R0138) by J. Nicholls at the outer or NW narrow point identified a NE-SW linear anomaly which probably extended across the peninsula (L c. 250m) as far as the sea. Archaeological testing (10E0329) by M. Clinton as a research project that opened three trenches was conducted in September 2010 (excavations.ie 2010:468) to investigate some of the anomalies. In Trench 1 a deep fosse (Wth of top 4; Wth of base c. 1m; D 2m) with steep sides and evidence of many re-cuts was uncovered. There were fragments of willow wood from the original fill at the base of the ditch that provided a C14 date of 680-890 cal. AD (SUREC-33518 (GU-23451). Just SE of the fosse were the remains of a metalled surface and evidence of an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; H 0.6m) with a second ditch (Wth 1.8m; D 1m) that may have curtailed the inner edge of the bank. A sample of Pomodieae or fruitstone charcoal from the bottom of the inner ditch yielded a determination of 660-780 cal. AD (SUREC-34092 (GU-23452). The outer ditch was sealed by an occupation layer with sherds of 13th and 14th century glazed pottery. A second trench uncovered two metalled surfaces and a number of pits, one of which may have functioned as a smelting pit associated with iron working. Trench 3 was located close to the river Glyde and uncovered a waterlogged ditch (Wth 2.85m; D 0.95m) together with another metalled surface. Samples from the bottom and top of this ditch provided C14 dates of 760-900 cal. AD and 680-880 cal. AD respectively. Artefacts from the excavation included a number of roves and ships nails, a small bronze boss or mount with Early Christian style geometric decoration, a rolled strip of bronze, a bronze brooch-pin, a spindle whorl, a lead weight and hack silver. The linear earthwork and the recovered material indicates a ninth or tenth century fortification (Clinton 2013-4) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 21 June 2012 Amended: 19 April, 2023 Clinton, M. 2013-14 The Viking Longphort of Linn Duachaill: A First Report. Peritia vol. 24-5, 123-40. McKeown, M. 2005 Annagassan, A Study of the Viking Longphort. Co. Louth Archaeological and Historical Society, 26, 1, 67-79 O’Hara, R. and O’Connell, A. 2011 Archaeological Assessment Linns, Annagassan, Co. Louth. License: 10E0329; 10R0131. Unpublished report, Archer Heritage Planning Todd, J. H. (ed.) 1867 Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaiby: the war of the Gaedhil with the Gaill (RS 48). London

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Linns.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3106 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Linns with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Linns · Baile na Linne

Area

705,509 m² (70.55 ha, 174.34 acres)

Civil parish

Gernonstown, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Castlebellingham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlebellingham electoral division: 1,882 people in 704 households; 72% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlebellingham, Maine

Placenames

Linns on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.